By guest blogger Charmaine Leah, host of the video blog Glamology and founder of beauty eco-boutique Mint & Berry. Do you know your skin type? It’s important to know your skin type so you can determine the best way to look after your skin, how to care for it, what kind of products to use, […]
Health & Fitness
Top 10 Ways to Avoid GMOs
This month, October, is Non-GMO Month. I find most people are really confused about what a GMO is and where GMOs are found. Some people tend to think that GMO seeds are similar to the type of hybridization that has been going on amongst gardeners for centuries. Not true! The type of genetic modification that […]
Who Let the GMOs Out?
By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva Having been raised and hardened in New York City, I am inherently skeptical. We New Yorkers consider that a social grace. When I heard about scientists inserting genes from humans, plants, bacteria, or viruses into crop plants like soybeans and corn, my “what the #@*%?” barometer […]
Pigs Prefer Music For Optimal Growth
Here is just the kind of strange-but-true story I love to read in my local paper in the morning over a cup of coffee…In Nyirangarama, Rwanda, a pig farmer has found that playing different types of music to his pigs has increased their growth and fertility…and their flavor. Gerard Sina came up with the idea […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Jeffery Smith
Jeffery M. Smith is in my kitchen today, talking about the nitty-gritty behind GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and his adventure for weird comfort food. Jeffery is an international best-selling author and filmmaker, and is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT). His first book, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies […]
What’s All This Food Coloring Good For?
By guest blogger Ayala Laufer-Cahana, MD, physician (pediatrics and medical genetics), artist, serious vegetarian home cook, mother of three school-age active kids, and cofounder of Herbal Water Inc. A new European law went into effect this summer requiring foods and drinks that contain any of six artificial food colorings linked to hyperactivity in children to […]
Learning to Run
I used to be a runner. A long, long time ago. Not the kind who raced or anything, or felt part of a running community, but the kind who ran for fitness. In 1985, I was 24 (had a 4-year-old kid) and weighed 115 pounds. I also rode my bike and lifted weights. I was […]
Breaking News: Massage Is Good for You
I always knew massage was good for me. I’m a bit of a massage adventurer. If I go someplace and see a new type of massage, I sign right up. I’ve had Thai massage, Reiki, craniosacral, four hands (sweet!), hot stone, deep tissue, Swedish, chakra, shiatsu, myofacial, yogassage, and other types I can’t remember at […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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